“They Can’t Kill Us All”: These Scholars Lost Their Countries and Found Each Other
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The doctor strides through Greenwich Village at rush hour on a December afternoon as if leaning into the wind. He is tall, lean, young—34—with longish wavy dark hair, charcoal eyebrows, a Roman nose. Carrying a raincoat and backpack, he…
How the Story of Soccer Became the Story of Everything
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One afternoon last October, thousands of fans began gathering outside St. James’ Park, the 130-year-old home of the English soccer club Newcastle United, to celebrate a new beginning. Some sported the club’s traditional black-and-white striped jerseys. Others toted cases…
The Internet Is Full of Predators. Omegle Lets You Meet Them.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. The two girls at the sleepover huddled together on the bed, passing the cell phone around. They took turns glancing at the screen, fascinated and unsettled by what they…
How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his snug campaign office in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping plaza next to a dentist and an acupuncturist, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scans the brightly colored maps that hang on the walls. They depict the tortuously shaped…
The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One day leading up to winter break, administrators of the predominantly white New Trier Township High School in the wealthy northern Chicago suburbs announced that “Understanding Today’s Struggle for Racial Civil Rights” would be the theme for a school-wide…
How the Left Lost Faith in SCOTUS and Learned to Love Packing the Court
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the spring day last year the Supreme Court announced it would hear a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, Sarah Lipton-Lubet knew immediately how the case would end: the court, stacked with six conservative Justices, would kill the…